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Progressive catholicsm - with a small "c"Fri, 09 Dec 2016 08:01:29 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Informed twice about sex abuse of disabled children, Pope Francis did nothing by Betty Clermonthttps://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/informed-twice-about-sex-abuse-of-disabled-children-pope-francis-did-nothing/#comment-6601
Fri, 09 Dec 2016 08:01:29 +0000http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/?p=12716#comment-6601Again and again, I thank you for your thoughtful comments.
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:20:55 +0000http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/?p=12716#comment-6600Again … and again … and again … and why?, because humans fear death. Virgin sacrifice to pagan gods has become the sacrifice of children in the 21st century. All for eternal life. What a con!

I want to consider myself a non-violent person, but I felt justice was finally served in Buenos Aires this week.

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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 13:12:17 +0000http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/?p=12716#comment-6599Minimally Francis should resign. Fat chance. Like kings, pontiffs are above the law, any law, secular or church. Despite Francis’ recent muttering about bishops being held accountable, god can’t even hold Francis accountable. The never-ending clerical sexual abuse scandal keeps rolling along. This must be “the New Evangelization” as it continues to empty pews. Thank for keeping the episode before the public as both NCRs and other RC publication are largely ignoring it.
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Sun, 27 Nov 2016 15:06:17 +0000http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/?p=11904#comment-6589Your comments are always much appreciated. “As transparent
as Donald Trump” is an excellent analogy as is the fact that both the pope and Trump were elevated to superstardom by the for-profit US media. I agree, the poor are mostly props for the pope’s own Secretariat of (PR) Communications.
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Sun, 27 Nov 2016 14:01:04 +0000http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/?p=11904#comment-6588Closest RCs will get to a forensic analysis is BC’s effort to connect financial dots. In lieu of Vatican transparency, BC’s audit is our best read. Let the Vatican publicly offer contrary evidence.
“Liars figures and figures lie,” comes to mind.
The poor continue to be abused and used with Francis’ so-called “Day of the Poor.” Let them eat that Maria Antoinette was overheard to mutter in a Vatican salon.
The Vatican is as transparent as Donald Trump.
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Sun, 13 Nov 2016 16:17:13 +0000http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/?p=12049#comment-6580Comment as mush as you like. You always have something informative with the correct analysis to share with us. An extremely astute observation: “Francis’ obsession with gender change, imposing opinion and not science, reflects Trump’s “I alone can fix it.” There is no dialogue with principals affected but Francis’ subjective principles. God isn’t perfect in creating. How does Francis explain hermaphrodites? Is that something of personal choice?”
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Sun, 13 Nov 2016 15:48:53 +0000http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/?p=12049#comment-6579For those who are gaga about the so-called Francis effect, BC continues to cast a spotlight on the darkness of his dealings. Francis still clings to Roman Empire’s Pontifex Maximus title, an imperial Roman papacy. He wants to impose from the top down. There is no consulting the faithful in matters of doctrine as Newman advocated.
Paul VI tried it with the birth control commission and when the laity rejected his interpretation, PVI rejected them and subsequent popes realize the faithful, save for a minority, are not in sync with them. RCs practice birth control in parity with others, whatever their background.
Still, the papacy seeks government to carry out its interpretation with the aid of government intervention under the guise of religious freedom now, as BC unveils clearly the darkness of Francis’ manipulation of political intervention. His Card. Parolin’s overture to Trump underscores the RCC prefers working with those of a fascist mindset rather that a democratic will of the people.
In “Charism and Power” by Boff (who strangely seems to be sucked into the Francis effect, probably out of wishful thinking that the RCC might change) underscores the penchant of the RCC for fascism: no means hostile to the authoritarian ideal of the state. Trump’s most revealing statement, “I alone can fix it” is authoritarian; rather than the democratic impulse of “we the people” can fix it. Quoting Christopher Dawson, popes “have far more affinity with those of Fascism than those of either Liberalism or Socialism.” Trump, for Francis, is god-sent.
Francis’ obsession with gender change, imposing opinion and not science, reflects Trump’s “I alone can fix it.” There is no dialogue with principals affected but Francis’ subjective principles. God isn’t perfect in creating. How does Francis explain hermaphrodites? Is that something of personal choice?
Provocative post. If I keep commenting I will be longer than BC’s post.
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Tue, 01 Nov 2016 06:27:57 +0000http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/?p=11669#comment-6573I recall reading somewhere he stated people rigid about law are hypocrites and those rigidly bound to the law among other things often live a double life. …..I quess that’s a pretty wide scope…
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Mon, 31 Oct 2016 08:45:13 +0000http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/?p=11669#comment-6571Excellent comment! Good point – another repudiation of science and the pope’s very selective “mercy.”
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Sun, 30 Oct 2016 14:13:42 +0000http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/?p=11669#comment-6570Again, the Vatican has learned nothing from the Galileo case in which it used scripture to repudiate science.
Now it claims to understand the mind of a creator about gender, that a creator was clearly explicit in delineating male/female – no confusion!
Then how does this creator explain itself regarding hermaphrodites –

“a person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natural condition.”

But Francis’ mind is made-up, science notwithstanding.
In this so-call Year of Mercy, Francis is merciless toward persons who are victims of a creator confusion.